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Virtua Fighter 4

If you're a Virtua Fighter 4 militant, you'll already have spent the last month finding the VF1 outfits, unlocking Dural and the previous win poses, and you'll be well on the way to perfecting a single character. You'll have bought the "red" and "blue" import strategy guides, and you'll be scraping the calluses from your thumb and attempting Akira's Stun Palm of Doom with an alarming sense of regularity. But what
about those waiting for the US version of the game?

We definitely wouldn't recommend you rent this title. We'd suggest you cancel all important social activity (unless it revolves around this game), choose Lei Fei, and spend the next four weeks perfecting him in Training and Kumite modes, while ordering your friends to do the same (but with different characters), before a grand master's challenge is announced. In an age where $50 is continuously forked out for games that last ten hours, the infinite replayability of VF4 is a breath of fresh air in the stale atmosphere of disposable gaming. It has the replayability of Grand Theft Auto 3, the attention to detail of Gran Turismo 3, and the deep fighting fun of Virtua Fighter 2. Virtua Fighter 4 is unbelievably good.